The river starts in the La Mosquitia region of the Department and is famous locally for its abundance of lizards.[3]
When the Sandinistas forced relocations of Miskito and Panamahka in Nicaragua in the early 1980s, many escaped to Honduras, ending up in refugee camps near the Nakunta river or in villages such as Mocorón.[4]
Discussions of building a bridge over the river near the village of Tapanlaya were underway in 2019 as a part of oil exploration activities.[5]
^The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Honduran Mosquitia, p. 17 (2006) ("Soon after , the Sandinistas began forced relocations of the Miskito and Panamahka that lived near the Honduran border . Many people fled to Honduras as refugees , settling in refugee camps near the Río Nakunta and the towns of Mocorón ..."), p. 264 ("large river in E Gracias a Dios flowing into Laguna de Caratasca E of Puerto Lempira")